The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-02-01

ped so low and business is so stagnant
that q desperate remedy has been ap-
piled that is, an attempt to secure
the state capitol"
"We know that money and whisky
is being used against Jefferson City,
and that a number of professional
2x4 lobbyists have been employed,
but this is only an additional reason for
US believing that the measure will be
defeated"
The Tribune then proceeds to yay
Its respects to members Of the legis-
lature in the following strain:
1--WE do not believe that the geDer-
al assembly has any notion OF passing
the removal resolution. 1t is not de-
manded by any tax payers outside of
Sedalia, and, moreover, is not practi-
cal in any respect. The legislature
of Missouri has other work to do than
entertaining schemes for booming
real estate in decaying towns. The
ablest members of the house are OPP
posed to it-men like Booth, Curtis,
Alexander, Russell, Mcintyre, Knies-
ley, Hinton, Timmonds, Leising,
Weimer, Allison, Shelton. Whitelaw,
levitt, Miller, Walton, Donelan,
Haynes, Noel, Mahan, Brown and
several others. The opinion of such
men is surely worth something, quite
as much as the chipmonk statesman
who can't tell the difference between
the previous question and bob tail
hush."
Speaking of the vote for submission,
the Tribune says:
There is something strange in the
analysis of the vote of yesterday on
the question of removing the capitol
from Jefferson City and locating it at
Sedalia. The vote was taken with
the full knowledge of the fact that a
bill was pending, asking for an appro-
priation of $3.50, 900 for permanently
improving the capitol building, accom-
panied by a guarantee that the
amount asked for would complete the
enlargement and Improvement, and
render the building commodious, and
sufficient to meet all the wants of the
state for, perhaps, the next twenty,
FIVE years and with full knowledge
of these facts, sixty-four members OF
the thirty.fourth general assembly
(not one of whom had canvassed the
subject before their constituents
voted to remove the capital
from It's present location,
when there is not the slightest neces-
sity for it. Yet such is the fact, and
the canvass of the vote reveals the
further fact: That neither gratitude
nor consistency are cardinal virtues
with at least three of the members of
the house, viz: Messrs. Kelly and
Connor, of johnson, and Mr.. Davis,
of Adair county. These gentlemen
have each state normal school locat-
ed at the county seat, which has been
supported by the state treasury lib
orally for a number of years, both for
maintenance and repairs, and which
is expecting an appropriation from the
legislature of not less than 500, 900 for
each of the other counties"
These gentlemen vote to abolish
the capitol at Jefferson City. and En-
ect a new one to accommodate some
other locality. Look well to your
lanrels, gentlemen. The end is not
yet"
Such are a few of the utterances
of the mouthpiece of Jefersonian's in
response to the agitation of the re-
moval question. From beginning to
end it is mass of libels, misrepresen-
tatiOns, false charges and threats.
As for Sedalia, she is neither dead
or asleep, as Jefferson City certainly
has had good evidence. AS for her
astounding impudence." IF a de-
mand that the capitol of the
state shall in some measure
represent the great interests of
Missouri and her people and
that it ought to be so located
as to be accessible to the people be
astounding impudence.," Sedalia
pleads guilty and is in sympathy with
the people. As to the railroad ques-
ton Sedalia has risen and thriven
from the prairies without the "Colo-
RADIO road" and can continue to do so
if necessary, but the Colorado road
cannot thrive without Sedalia and is
therefore certain to come to Sedalia
when it is built But why attempt to
answer in detail such plain, palpable.
reckless Misrepresentation. Ever
since 1920 Jefferson City has been
trying to become metropolis on the